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Chelsea Manning: "I will not bow to that, nor to any other grand jury."
Former US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning was released from prison despite the refusal to testify before an investigation into Wikileaks.
Manning, 31, was detained for 62 days after a Virginia judge ordered her to be detained in March.
However, she will have to appear again before a grand jury on May 16th.
Manning was convicted in 2013 of counts, including espionage, for disclosing secret military records to Wikileaks, but his sentence was later commuted.
She declined to answer further questions about Wikileaks from investigators because she had already testified at her trial in 2013.
Her release Thursday comes after the expiration of the period during which she could be detained for failing to testify.
"Today marks the end of the grand jury mandate, and after 62 days of detention, Chelsea was released from the Alexandria detention center earlier in the day," his lawyer said in a statement.
"Unfortunately, even before his release, Chelsea had received another subpoena," the statement added. "It is therefore conceivable that she is again found guilty of contempt of court and sent back [to custody].
"Chelsea will continue to refuse to answer questions and will use all legal defenses available to prove (…) that she has valid reasons to refuse to testify."
When she refused to testify in March, her lawyers reportedly asked that she be confined to her home for medical reasons, but the judge said the US Marshals would meet her care needs.
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US prosecutors have been investigating Wikileaks for years and, in November, they inadvertently revealed possible charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in court documents from a separate case.
Manning was arrested in Iraq in 2010 for disclosing more than 700,000 confidential documents, videos and diplomatic cables on the anti-secret website.
While Manning said he only did so to spark foreign policy debates, US officials said the leak was putting lives at risk.
She was sentenced to 35 years after being convicted of 20 charges related to the leak, but President Barack Obama commuted his sentence in 2017.
His sentence was the longest given for a leak in the history of the United States. President Obama said it was "disproportionate" to his crimes.
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